Washing-machine



/ 0 HEWES Patented Mar. I4, |899.

WASHING MACHINE.

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oTIs HEwEs, or LIME SPRING, IowA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,921, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed OctoberZ9, 1898. Serial No. 694,972. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, OTIs HEW-Es, a citizen of n the UnitedStates, residing at Lime Spring, in

the county of Howard and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in Washing-machines.

The object of the present invention is to im-A prove the construction of washing-machines and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one capable of rapidly and thorou ghly washin g clothes and other fabrics without injuring them.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.- Fig. Il is a detail perspective view of the cover.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a semicylindrical washing-machine body provided with a curved sheetmetal bottom 2 and having a cover 3,supported upon horizontal ribs or flanges t, arranged at the inner faces of the sides and ends of the body and provided at their upper faces with rubber strips 5 to form a water-tight joint. The cover, which is composedof two sections, is hinged at the outer ends of the sections at 7 to the washing-machine body, and the said sections are adapted to swing outward to open the washing-machine.

The washing-machine body is provided at opposite sides with suitable bearings, in which is arranged a transverse shaft 8, having iiattened ends 9, which detachably engage recesses 10 of a frame or stand 11, whereby the shaft is held stationary. Theshaft, which is stationary, extends across the .washing-machine body and is provided between the sides of the same with a rigid depending presser or pounder 12, which engages the clothes when the washing-machine body is oscillated. The shaft 8 and the depending pounder or presser 12, which are rigid with each other, may be' constructed either'of wood or metal.

The stand,which may be constructed in any suitable manner, is provided at opposite sides with inclinedstandards 13, connected at their lower ends by cross-bars 14 and having their upper terminals secured' to blocks 15, which are provided with the said recesses 10. When the ends of the shaft are arranged in the reor tapering in cross-section and preferably formed integral with the end flanges 4 of the washing-machine body. L The transverse ribs are perforated for the passage ofwater, and when the washing-machine body is oscillated its ends are carried alternately toward the presser or pounder 12, and the clothes are squeezed between the same'andthe ribs 19 and perforated plates 20, which are mounted on the cover at the ends thereof. The upper portion of the pounder or presser is provided with an opening 2l, andthe lower portion is perforated for the passage of water expelled from the clothes. 1

The plates 20, which maybe constructed of wood, metal, or any other vsuitable material, are provided with perforations and are spaced from the cover by tapering strips or blocks 22, which taper toward the center of the cover, their larger ends being disposed toward the ends of the cover. The lower edges of the tapering blocks or strips 22 are inclined and diverge downwardly, and the perforated plates, which are oset from the cover, are disposed at an inclination. The clothes to be washed are placed within the washingmachine body at opposite sides of the presser or pounder, and when the body is oscillated and the clothes squeezed the Water is expelled from them and forced through the `perforations of the plates, the presser or pounder, and the ribs, and it escapes through the open IOC ing of the presser or pounder and through the passages formed by offsetting the plates from the cover.

The Washing-machine,which is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, is easily operated and is capable of quickly removing the dirt and stains from clothes. The clothes are squeezed and pressed and thoroughly subjected to the action of hot Wa ter and suds, and the operator is enabled to exert the desired amount of pressure on them. As the Washing-machine body and the clothes are oscillated the latter are thoroughly and uniformly operated on and cannot collect and remain at one end of the body out of reach of the Washing mechanism.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

That is claimed as new is-V l. A Washing-machine comprising a frame or stand, an oscillating washing machine body, a stationary shaft mounted on the frame or stand and supporting the Washing-machine body, a stationary presser or pounder arranged Within the body and depending from the shaft, and the inclined perforated plates spaced from the lower face of the cover and forming passages, said inclined plates being carried out of the body by the cover when the latter is opened, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A Washing-machine comprising a frame or stand, a stationary shaft mounted on the frame or stand, an oscillating Washing-machine body journaled on the shaft and provided at its ends with transverse ribs having perforations, a rigid pounder or presser depending from the shaft, a cover provided on its lower face With tapering ,blocks or strips arranged in pairs, and the inclined perforated plates secured to the blocks or strips and spaced from the cover, substantially as described.

3. The combination of an oscillatingwashing-machine body, a stationary presser or pounder arranged Within the Washing-machine body, a cover composed of sections hinged at their outer ends to the body, and perforated plates mounted on and spaced from the lower faces of the sections of the cover, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

-OTIS IIEWES. lvitnesses:

P. MoPHERsoN, G. OWENS. 

